Aflabox raises €1.35M seed to bring food safety testing into the field

Italy-based agritechstartup Aflabox has raised €1.35 million in seed funding to accelerate thecommercialisation and industrial scaling of its AI-powered food safetymonitoring platform. The equity roun…

Aardaia bags €5M to build the next generation of crops

Aardaia, a Wageningen-based agritechstartup developing new crop varieties from wild plants, has raised €5 millionin a seed funding round led by Point Nine. Existing investor FoodLabsparticipated in th…

The other Dyson empire, measured in acres
The other Dyson empire, measured in acres

Inside a glasshouse the size of roughly 20 football pitches, on the flat black soil of Lincolnshire, strawberry plants ride a Ferris wheel. The wheels stand about 5.5 metres tall, and each one weighs close to half a tonne. They turn slowly, all day, ca…

OneSoil secures €1M to expand AI-powered farming assistant

Zurich-basedagritech company OneSoil, which develops AI-driven solutions for precisionagriculture, has secured €1 million in funding from existing investors,including Yury Melnichek, serial entreprene…

Rainbow Crops raises €9.7M to scale AI-powered crop engineering

Belgian agritech startup Rainbow Crops has raised €9.7million in an oversubscribed seed funding round to advance its crop engineeringplatform, expand its application across multiple crops, and grow it…

Anterra Capital reaches $100M first close for Fund III to back next-gen food and agritech innovation

Anterra Capital, a specialist venture firm investing in food and agriculture, today announced its $100 million first close of Fund III. Founded in 2013 with offices in Amsterdam and Boston, the firm …

Cordon Technologies raises £1M to help farmers cut pesticide use through precision spraying

UK-based agritech startup, Cordon Technologies, has secured the first close of a £1 million funding round led by British Design Fund (BDF) to accelerate the development and commercial rollout of its p…

Dutch startup SolarDew raises €800K to scale solar-powered drinking water tech

SolarDew, a Dutch developer of innovative solar-powered water purification technology, recently raised €800K in funding from Connect the Drops, a Dutch investor in early-stage startups in the water se…

A North Dakota startup raised $10 million from ranchers and neighbours to build the operating system for beef cattle
A North Dakota startup raised $10 million from ranchers and neighbours to build the operating system for beef cattle

701x, a Fargo-based agricultural technology company, has closed an oversubscribed Series B round exceeding $10 million, funded entirely by local investors from North Dakota and Minnesota and rancher-customers across the United States. No venture capita…

PerPlant raises €1M to put AI cameras on tractors, and 200,000 hectares in the bank
PerPlant raises €1M to put AI cameras on tractors, and 200,000 hectares in the bank

The Copenhagen agtech has already mapped nine times more European farmland than every Danish agricultural drone combined. Two well-known Nordic investors want the United States next. The pitch behind PerPlant is one a farmer can grasp in a sentence: a …